Happy Friday, and I just came across some cool pictures of Greg Jein’s beautiful K7 Space Station from the DS9 episode, Trials and Tribble-ations. Greg Jein is one of the greatest model makers of all time, and his passion for Star trek is equally as great. This was definitely a labor of love project, and it shows in all the details. I love Greg and so miss the days of working in his shop back when real models were used for movies!!! So here are some fun pics to start the weekend, and hope everyone has a great couple of days off!!!

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43 Responses to “greg jein’s k7 space station”

Not being a model builder, I’m always fascinated with the amount of detail some of them achieve! I have always thought it would be fun to try my hand, and wow, actually making a living building such great Trek icons for filming…what a job!! 🙂

Thanks for reminding me of this great episode; now I wanna pull it out and watch it this weekend.

It’s a great time making models especially when a group of you are working on the same piece!!! tons of great memories working with Greg and yes you should give it a go,, head on over to the Hobby Lobby and gets some cool stuff to build

Greg Jein is awesome. As a person who has always been into model making, he’s one of my heroes.

AWESOME post, John, thanks for digging up these pictures and posting them. I am absolutely in awe of this model. Not only is it accurate but, from what I’ve read, it was built in a short amount of time also. Greg and his crew are model making machines. Great, great stuff. I saved the pictures in my K7 references folder. 😀

Trek Space Stations have always been interesting. Someday, I would love to see someone do artwork detailing the insides of Earth Spacedock and K7 to show that what we saw on TV and the Movies was only the tip of the iceburg.

It looks like the lower Miranda is registered NCC-9481, apparently a rearrangement of 1864 with the 6 upside-down. My guess is they were supposed to represent the arriving fleet from “Way of the Warrior” seen here…

I’d hazard a guess that these models were used for the closing shot of the fleet in “Call to Arms” (which was a CGI/Physical models combo) as was confirmed by Davis Stipes some time ago…The fact that you can see the mounting rods attached to the top explains why we saw so many ventral shots of the ships in that shot…You can find Stipes’ breakdown of the scene here:

Go rent moon!!! the moon base and landscape work is all a combo of miniatures and CG enhancements,, It really shows, to me anyway that the best looking and most realistic VFX are a combo and not just one elemental style all on it’s own.

They had piles of those ships at Image G back in the day. They were used for BG ships in DS9.

I also heard that this take on the K7 model was designed with the idea that each big round section was in fact a dock, or repair facility, that would open with the clamshell doors that make up the body or each pod. Inside would be various ships, docked, being loaded or repaired.

Love the pics, thanks so much…As to its fate, it stands to reason to assume it is still in the possession of the studio. Why do I think so? I asked myself the same question about Jein’s Enterprise until she started to show up on the tour circuit in 2009 in the revamped Star Trek The Exhibition tour (I believe in the Hollywood & Highland Center , California for the first time)….

Gosh, I wished, somebody had taken the trouble to photograph his D7 model as well…

By the By, Doug mentioned on his blog that Greg Jein was busy writing a book about his work, anything you might know?

The Miranda-class starship seen in that screenshot from “The Way of the Warrior” was the U.S.S. Trial (NCC-1948). This starship’s name was revealed on the old official Star Trek site, and the ship’s registry was revealed in 2009 on Ex-Astris-Scientia.